The Advantages of Using Robotic Palletizing for Your Business
Moving products onto and off of pallets has traditionally been done by hand. New robotic palletizing machines make this faster, safer, and more accurate.
Businesses Look Toward Wall Picking As Labor Demands Increase
Many manufacturing companies are looking to automated solutions as a response to the seismic shift brought about by the pandemic. Wall picking, also known as vertical lift module (VLM), is one of them.
Necessary Steps to Future-Proof Your Company's Workforce
Businesses face many fast-changing risks, including unpredictable difficulties in retaining the workforce. Intelligent robotics solutions offer protection.
Are More Companies Moving Towards Smart Warehousing in 2022?
Smart warehousing combines robotics, artificial intelligence, and warehouse management systems for greater efficiency. This trend is exploding in 2022.
PGMax: Factor Graphs for Discrete Probabilistic Graphical Models and Loopy Belief Propagation in JAX
PGMax is an open-source Python package for easy specification of discrete Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) as factor graphs, and automatic derivation of efficient and scalable loopy belief propagation (LBP) implementation in JAX.
Why More Companies are Doubling Down on Secondary Packaging Automation
Packaging goods for sale involves three different levels. Automation of secondary packaging has become a must for businesses in many verticals.
The Idea of Robots as a Service Is No Longer Fiction
Reduce the high capital costs of purchasing robots by renting them instead. Automate your processes with Vicarious’s Robots as a Service (RaaS) model.
Key Advantages of Kitting in Your Warehouse Production Process
Kitting, or placing products into boxes for customers, has just become considerably easier. Smart robots offer efficiency, reliability, and adaptability.
Next Level Palletizer Machines Are Mixing It Up
Palletizer machines have seen rapid tech advancements recently. Now smart robots can automatically handle pallets regardless of shape, size, or orientation.
Intelligent Automation: New Advances Are An Industry Game Changer
Industries of all varieties are quickly turning to smart robots, taking advantage of the cost savings, labor productivity gains, and safety enhancements that they offer. Ready to bring your organization up to speed with intelligent automation?
How Smart Robots Can Revolutionize Your Workforce
It’s not just for the movies anymore—smart robots are revolutionizing how companies do business. Creeping in around the edges of industry, smart robots represent an entirely novel approach to automation.
Meet Vicarious at RSCL or PACK Expo
We will be exhibiting at the Retail Supply Chain & Logistics Expo (RSCL) in Las Vegas on September 1 – 2 at BOOTH #7175.
Packaging Solution
See Vicarious robots in action performing product packaging, tight-fit insertion, and repacking.
How Case Mason Deployed Vicarious Robots to Pack Over 500,000 Sephora PLAY! Kits
Find out how Case Mason reduced their kitting cost by 25% and labor-hour by 80% in our case study.
Palletizing Solution
See the Vicarious palletizing solution in action at a customer site.
Kitting with Pitney Bowes
See how Vicarious is helping companies like Pitney Bowes streamline their kitting operation and reduce unit cost by 35%.
Replace Pick-to-Light Systems with Smart Robots Powered by Neuroscience-Inspired AI
The Vicarious wall picking solution is the industry’s first and only wall picking solution to replace manual pick-to-light systems. Learn about the unique challenges involved in automating the future of e-commerce fulfillment.
Wall Picking Solution
Introducing the industry’s first & only automated solution for pick-to-light. See the Vicarious wall picking solution in action.
GreyOrange, Vicarious Launch Automated Pick-and-Pack Solution for Apparel and Omnichannel Fulfillment
GreyOrange, a global leader in AI-enabled software and robotics for fulfillment automation, today announced a partnership with Vicarious, an AI robotic integrator that automates tasks too versatile and complex to be handled by traditional, hard-coded automation systems.
Kitting with Case Mason
See how Vicarious is helping Case Mason kit over 500,000 Sephora PLAY! kits with our autonomous kitting solution.
Automate At-Home Test Kit Assembly Using AI Powered Robotics
Learn about how Vicarious has solved the complexity related to handling adverse objects with our kitting solution.
Repacking Solution
See the Vicarious repacking solution in action.
Introduce Intelligent Automation to Your Repacking Operations
Vicarious has created a solution that solves many of the problems seen in traditional automation of repacking. Powered by neuroscience-inspired AI, Vicarious robots visually identify each individual item when constructing each mixed package.
Automate Mixed Palletizing with Neuroscience-Inspired AI
Vicarious, a robotic system integrator powered by neuroscience-inspired AI, has developed a cutting-edge solution to mixed palletizing that provides several benefits over traditional offers.
Robots as a Service: future-proof solution for intelligent automation
Vicarious is pioneering a new business model, Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS), which protects our customers from the risks associated with accelerating product cycles.
CapEx vs OpEx: Changing the paradigm of automation financing
For business leaders looking to differentiate themselves from their competition, choosing the proper financing model for their purchase decisions are critical. Learn more in our case study.
Providing 3PLs With A Competitive Edge
Pitney Bowes partners with Vicarious to reduce both per-unit costs and cycle time by 35%.
Vicarious: There’s Robots, Then There’s ‘Robots-As-A-Service’ Model
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Benioff and Mark Zuckerberg all have something in common other than being billionaires. They all invest in a company called Vicarious, which is taking robotics to a higher, yet more democratic, level.
Helping clients during COVID-19
Learn how Shastha Foods weathered COVID-19 and reduced labor costs by 27% by automating with Vicarious.
These Industrial Robots Get More Adept With Every Task
Vicarious, a secretive 10-year-old startup backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, reveals its progress and an initial customer.
Introducing Vicarious: AI for the Robot Age
Every interesting startup exists to make a prediction about the future come true. Our prediction: in fifteen years, robots will be as commonplace and easy to use as mobile phones.
This Week in Startups: Interview with Scott Phoenix
Vicarious co-founder Scott Phoenix on innovating in AI & the race to unlock the human brain to create artificial general intelligence, the last tech humans will invent.
Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs
Using an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes patterns, technology companies are reporting startling gains in fields as diverse as computer vision, speech recognition and the identification of promising new molecules for designing drugs.
Betting Big on Bionic Brains
When an IBM Computer program called Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, wise folks opined that since chess was just a game of logic, this was neither significant nor surprising.
Software Firm Claims Breakthrough in Computer Vision Will Lead to Better AI
The start-up Vicarious claims it has come up with artificial intelligence (AI) software that reads images nearly as well as humans and can crack a CAPTCHA 90 percent of the time.
CAPTCHA Busted? AI Company Claims to Have Broken the Internet’s Favorite Protection System
But more exciting, this might be a major breakthrough in computer science.
AI Startup Vicarious Claims Milestone in Quest to Build a Brain: Cracking CAPTCHA
Can machines think? Not yet. But there is one at least partial test: the CAPTCHA, or “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”.
CAPTCHA Test Cracked by US Firm Vicarious
A US-based start-up claims to have broken security tests used to tell humans and computers apart online. Vicarious said it had developed technology, based on the human brain, which could solve text-based Captcha test 90% of the time.
Could Baboons Solve CAPTCHAs?
A Turing test in reverse. Interview with Thomas Hannagan, a cognitive scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research and Aix-Marseille University.
Attempting to Code the Human Brain
Vicarious was founded by Mr. Phoenix and Dileep George, a Stanford Ph.D. graduate who studied hierarchical models of the brain. Their premise was to focus on the sensory aspect of the brain, particularly vision’s critical role in the early stages of human development.
Vicarious Raises New Round of Funding
Vicarious, a San Francisco-based company that developed technology to solve Captcha queries last fall, just raised a big new $40 million round from investors including Joe Lonsdale’s Formation 8, Mark Zuckerberg, Vinod Khosla, and Peter Thiel.
Interview with Vicarious Co-Founder Scott Phoenix
Interviewed by Melissa Lee on CNBC’s Fast Money.
Amazon, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce Founders Invest in Vicarious
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Skype co-founder Janus Friis and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to give Vicarious an additional shot of capital in its Series B round.
The Future of Computers Is the Mind of a Toddler
An AI with something resembling brain memory would be able to discern the highlights of what it sees and use the information to shape its understanding of things over time.
Vicarious Selected as Technology Pioneer
The full list of recognized Technology Pioneers can be found here.
How Artificial Intelligence is Getting Even Smarter
Artificial intelligence can already do remarkable things – but it could do much more if it could perceive, learn and think like a human.
Samsung and Wipro Invest in Vicarious
Vicarious’s partnerships with companies such as ABB, Samsung, and Wipro are aimed at applying its research into products and learning how to better develop technology.
Artificial Intelligence Leaders Answer AI’s Most Burning Questions
Interview with Dileep George, Adam Cheyer (fo-founder of Siri) and David Ackley (Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico).
Goldman Sachs Honors Vicarious as Top 5 Most Innovative Company
Scott Phoenix and Dileep George discuss what excites them most about the prospect of creating AGI.
We Have This Remarkable Ability to Create Any Kind of World We Imagine
Article in The Guardian about one of our investors, Bryan Johnson, and his venture capital firm, The OS Fund.
Killer Robots? Superintelligence? Let’s Not Get Ahead of Ourselves
Opinion piece in the Washington Post by Dileep George on the path towards AGI.
No, the Robots Are Not About to Rise up and Destroy Us All
It is very, very unlikely that a robot would ever be smart enough to devise a way to dry the world’s oceans without being smart enough to understand why that would be a problem.
Vicarious Is the AI Company That Includes Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Thiel as Investors
In-depth interview with Vicarious co-founder in Forbes discussing artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship and the future of Vicarious.
Vicarious Is the AI Company That Includes Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Thiel as Investors
In-depth interview with Vicarious co-founder in Forbes discussing artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship and the future of Vicarious.
Artificial Intelligence at Work
Dileep George spoke at EmTech 2016 about common sense and the ability to model the world.
Vicarious Wants to Create Human-Level Artificial Intelligence
Scott Phoenix, founder of Vicarious, knows that people are scared and skeptical of human-level artificial intelligence. But he’s building it anyway because he believes smart machines could one day solve virtually every problem that humans simply can’t.
Khosla Bets on AI for Robots That Handle Uncertainty
Vinod Khosla’s latest investment is part of a $50 million round for Vicarious Inc., a robotics-focused artificial intelligence startup.
Khosla Ventures Leads $50 Million Investment in Vicarious
Vicarious, which is working on narrowing the gap between human and artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $50 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures.
The Futurists | In Principle
Can technology and artificial intelligence solve long-standing global problems like disease and hunger? How will technologies fundamentally change humans and concepts like work and jobs?
How to Teach Artificial Intelligence Some Common Sense
We’ve spent years feeding neural nets vast amounts of data, teaching them to think like human brains. They’re crazy-smart, but they have absolutely no common sense. What if we’ve been doing it all wrong?
The Future of AI Will Be About Less Data, Not More
When robots have a conceptual understanding of the world, as humans do, it is easier to teach them things, using far less data.
Hate Assembling IKEA Furniture? This Robot Might Be Able to Help
Dileep George, an artificial intelligence and neuroscience researcher at Vicarious AI in San Francisco, and colleagues have programmed a robot to read and understand visual instruction manuals and build things from them.
Why Can’t Robots Just Learn to Do Things Without Being Told?
Robots normally need to be programmed in order to get them to perform a particular task, but they can be coaxed into writing the instructions themselves with the help of machine learning.
Saving AI From Catastrophic Forgetting
In the quest to build AI that goes beyond today’s single-purpose machines, scientists are developing new tools to help AI remember the right things — and forget the rest.
Future Data Applications – Human-Level Intelligent Robots
Each year, the Samsung CEO Summit brings together leading entrepreneurs, investors, thought leaders and Samsung’s global portfolio of companies for a day of insights and networking.
Our Principles
Vicarious aims to bring about a robotic golden age by using AI to automate more and more general tasks until we reach artificial general intelligence. Here are the clear and explicit principles that guide our research and products.
Vicarious AI Passes First Turing Test: CAPTCHA
Vicarious, a startup developing artificial intelligence software, today announced that its algorithms can now reliably solve modern CAPTCHAs, including Google’s reCAPTCHA, the world’s most widely used test of a machine’s ability to act human.
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